Travelogue By John Bauerschmidt This summer, through the generosity of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee, I was able to take a long-planned sabbatical. It had been nine years since my last leave from the diocese: at t... Read More...
Keeping Company with God By Christopher Yoder This is a brief note to commend to you a book that I recently encountered for the first time: Prayer: Living with God by Simon Tugwell, O.P. This summer, the book caught my attention ... Read More...
Good Books and Good Talk By Victor Lee Austin "Put the oil where the squeak is” can guide adult Christian education programs. What’s squeaking in 2023? In my view it is theological anthropology, the Christian understanding of human nature and destiny. That’s admittedly a broad area... Read More...
Cormac McCarthy: A Survey and Appreciation By John Mason Lock Cormac McCarthy died June 13 at the age of 89. He was to my way of thinking the greatest living novelist in the United States. A few years ago, he might have needed to compete with Toni Mo... Read More...
Niggle’s Parish: Concerning Trees in Purgatory By Hannah Matis Between 1938 and 1939, in the mounting tensions before the outbreak of war, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a cameo-like fable that he called, gloriously and sardonically, “Leaf by Niggle.” It is that m... Read More...
A Beloved Tool and its Replacement By Mark Michael When my father started as a hardware salesman, his boss handed him the catalog, the essential tool of his trade. Always in the trunk of his car, it was a wonder to me as a child. Nearly a foot thick, it had leather sides with handles, li... Read More...
The Innocent Curate, Revisited By David M. Baumann The May 28, 2017 issue of The Living Church featured a cover article by Richard J. Mammana about a book called The Innocent Curate by Paris Leary. Doubleday had published it in 1963. I fi... Read More...
Longing for a Re-enchanted World: David Bentley Hart’s Roland in Moonlight By Matt Boulter When, several years ago, I read Jean Grondin’s intellectual biography Gadamer, about the eponymous German continental philosopher, I was astonished a... Read More...
